Friday morning story time with mlWOO WOO (6/20/08)

I am out of the office this afternoon so I swizitched it up, yo.

This story happened last night.

I contacted a lady named Maxine from Craigslist about a big sectional black leather sofe for my new house. It was only $250, and the ad showed a picture and it looked to be in great shape. The only problem, Maxine lives in Willis, TX.

My friend and I hooked up the trailer and drove ou there last night. We pull up to her home(trailer) and about 150 dogs all start barking. Chihuahas, Dobermans, Schit-tzus, Poodles, and Yorkies. Some are in pens, some are running around, it was madness and smelled like dog crap everywhere. Maxine comes out. She is a piece of work. She has no teeth and was about 4'6". Her head rested directly on her shoulders. She literally had no neck. I looked at another trailer that was halfway torn down as she walked out. I thought to myself, "Well this is the end of the road for me, I'm about to get chopped up into little pieces and have my skin worn as a coat." It was a scary place, reminded me of Texas Chainsaw Massacre or House of 1000 Corpses. If there ever was a place to lure someone to via Craigslist to kill them, this was it.

As she walks up, I say, "Man you sure have a lot of dogs!" This appeared to offend her and she mumbles "well they pay the bills." Turns out she is a breeder of my five most hated breeds of dogs. So I think that Maxine not only is going to kill me, she is going to torture me for commenting on her dogs. I reach out to shake her hand and she looks away and sticks out her hand. No eye contact at all.

We go look at the couch. It is not in perfect condition like the ad said, but we decide to just load it up and get out of there. It is sitting outside and has bird crap on it. After tying it down, for some reason we get into a conversation with her. Bad idea.

Me: Why are you getting rid of all this stuff?
Maxine: Well we're tearing down this trailer over here and we have no place to put it.
Me: Yeah, I saw you had a lot of other stuff on Craigslist.
Maxine: Yeah.

The next question was the biggest mistake of the entire trip.

Me: Why are you tearing it down?
Maxine: My son-in-law committed suicide in it. . . . . .

I looked over at my friend and knew exactly what he was thinking. We both finished her sentence in our heads with " . . . . on our couch."

Maxine starts crying uncontrollably. It gets really awkward at this point. A chihuahua is barking at my feet so I reach down to pet it to break the awkwardness. The chihuahua tries to bite me. At this point, I look at my friend and giv e him the "let's get the hell out of here" look. We say goodbye, pay Maxine, and leave.

So now I went out there thinking I was going to get an awesome sofa and instead got a sofa that a guy might have died on. I will never shop on craigslist outside the loop ever again.

At least if the couch is haunted, it will be a conversation piece. Maybe Maxine's sone-in-laws ghost is pretty cool.

I will never go to Willis, TX again.

 

House full of furniture and appliance, and televisions

We have a complete housefull of furniture to sell fast. We have an Amana refrigerator 15 cubic ft $125, Old Armoir (wardrobe) $80, Sofa and love set very nice $250 for the set. Replica grand father clock (bought at hobby lobby $200)$100, Black leather section $250( paid $3000 from star furniture 3years old), queen size bed still in plastic $125 has frame. Computer desk nice metal and fake wood $20. stereo system 5 disc cd player am and fm radio 2 speakers $40 dresser with mirror, with tall dresser nice set for $80, tv entertainment center $20 2- 19 inch or bigger televisions $50 each. 13" television with vhs player $30( great for a kids room and video games. Lots of different cookie jars (25 left)$4 each Please call if your interested if you need more information or pictures please call 936-443-2860


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